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The Turnpike Troubadours, hailing from middle America (Tahlequah, OK, to be exact), offer listeners genuine heartfelt lyrics over the backdrop of perfectly balanced old-timey, twangy instruments that are heavy on the fiddle and pedal steel…

Party Tube from Plattsburgh has a new holiday tune for this season, a fun and cynical look at the doom and gloom that Christmas brings to some in the North Country of NY. "A Very Burghy Christmas" was written by Kevin Lewis (guitar, vocals)…

The 58th Grammy Award nominations were announced. While big-name artists Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift and The Weeknd received the most nominations, many New York artists were nominated for awards. The most well-known residents of the…

Disturbed has released the third music video off their sixth studio album, Immortalized. The leviathan that is Disturbed has released their cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic "The Sound of Silence." Disturbed premiered the new music…

A pillar of the North Country music scene, trombonist Rick Davies succumbed to a long battle with cancer last week. “Rick was a mentor, an amazing musician and a very close friend,” said Lowell Wurster, percussionist of Plattsburgh-based…

As the year begins to draw to a close, local and regional acts may stick closer to home, bringing out friends and fans to end of the year celebrations and final shows before a break around the holidays. December in Upstate New York in…

Kimberly Schad debuted her new self-produced, four-song EP, Mystic Kingdom, Friday evening at The Palace Theater, bookending her eighteen song set with the tracks from the new release. In this case I saw the concert before listening to the…

Many people associate the madness that is Black Friday with people waiting in extremely long lines, sometimes even camping out, to get the hottest items of the year at the best bargain prices. Typically the main events happen at malls and…

November was indubitably a huge month in pop music. A number of artists like Justin Bieber, Adele, and One Direction each released new albums that are all getting a great deal of hype in the music world. In addition, Ellie Goulding’s…

Nectar's, the mecca of Vermont’s music scene celebrated it's 40th birthday with a re-union of the Unknown Blues Band which also marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of bandleader Big Joe Burrell. This famed band reunited with it's…